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  2. Nicolas Auguste Tissot - Wikipedia

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    Nicolas Auguste Tissot (French:; March 16, 1824 – July 14, 1907) was a French cartographer, who in 1859 and 1881 published an analysis of the distortion that occurs on map projections. He devised Tissot's indicatrix , or distortion circle, which when plotted on a map will appear as an ellipse whose elongation depends on the amount of ...

  3. Tissot's indicatrix - Wikipedia

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    The Behrmann projection with Tissot's indicatrices The Mercator projection with Tissot's indicatrices. In cartography, a Tissot's indicatrix (Tissot indicatrix, Tissot's ellipse, Tissot ellipse, ellipse of distortion) (plural: "Tissot's indicatrices") is a mathematical contrivance presented by French mathematician Nicolas Auguste Tissot in 1859 and 1871 in order to characterize local ...

  4. Orthographic map projection - Wikipedia

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    Direct application of the orthographic projection yields scattered points in (x, y), which creates problems for plotting and numerical integration. One solution is to start from the (x, y) projection plane and construct the image from the values defined in (λ, φ) by using the inverse formulas of the orthographic projection.

  5. Samuel-Auguste Tissot - Wikipedia

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    In 1760, he published L'Onanisme, his own comprehensive medical treatise on the purported ill-effects of masturbation. [3] Citing case studies of young male masturbators amongst his patients in Lausanne as basis for his reasoning, Tissot argued that semen was an "essential oil" and "stimulus" that, when lost from the body in great amounts, would cause "a perceptible reduction of strength, of ...

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    At first, BetOnline accepted bets on a handful of high school football games per year, the online gaming site’s brand manager, Dave Mason, told Yahoo Sports.

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    Get answers to your AOL Mail, login, Desktop Gold, AOL app, password and subscription questions. Find the support options to contact customer care by email, chat, or phone number.

  8. User guide - Wikipedia

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    As the software industry was developing, the question of how to best document software programs was undecided. This was a unique problem for software developers, since users often became frustrated with current help documents. [2] Some considerations for writing a user guide that developed at this time include: the use of plain language [2]

  9. Nicholas Hoult Reveals the NSFW Nickname Clint Eastwood Gave ...

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    Nicholas Hoult said Clint Eastwood developed a nickname for him in reference to Hoult's character on the Hulu series 'The Great'